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by gvb 11y ago
It is open source: https://github.com/wting/hackernews albeit that source is somewhat outdated. Source code (news.arc): https://github.com/wting/hackernews/blob/master/news.arc From
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by gvb 11y ago
His spelunking through the binary shows "uImage" which is the U-Boot[0] header/wrapper for a kernel image. The mkimage[1] utility will show what is in the header and give direct information on how to dissect it. A very large
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by gvb 12y ago
> and the data will not leave your company. That is a two-edged sword. The data is also inaccessible outside of your company. There are ways to make it accessible outside the company (VPN, WebDAV over https), but they tend to be complex,
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A Strategy for Teaching Programming – Logic First(spin.atomicobject.com)
2 points by gvb 12y ago|0 comments
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Technologists Overestimate Their Ability to Drive Social Progress(technologyreview.com)
2 points by gvb 12y ago|0 comments
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by gvb 12y ago
What is interesting is the last three "engineers" in the list are not engineers-by-education ("white collar") type engineers, they are engineers-by-trade ("blue collar"). The "engineers by trade" typi
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The Code Is Just the Symptom(medium.com)
263 points by gvb 12y ago|65 comments
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by gvb 12y ago
(2014) Looks like it still has the same revenue share scheme that Roy complained about. https://teach.udemy.com/
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by gvb 12y ago
Funny true story: My friend bought a fancy new stove. After owning it a couple of weeks his wife commented that the oven didn't work on Thursdays. Odd. So he investigated... and he found that indeed on Thursdays, if he tried to turn th
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by gvb 12y ago
40 years is the maximum prison term. The prison term he would get if he were convicted would likely be a fraction of that.
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by gvb 12y ago
Some background on the CA law: http://greensource.construction.com/news/080107CARB.asp "The new CARB rule sets thresholds for emissions of formaldehyde from various panel products that take effect in two phases be
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by gvb 12y ago
I read the article hoping for something insightful, but when I read the paragraph ...a half-dozen tabs that auto-open on launch thanks to the dozens of extensions I've accumulated over the years[...] I had to stop and say "wait,
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by gvb 12y ago
Interesting tidbit: the barrier to legally registering a custom automobile in the US appears to be pretty low: http://www.dmv.org/other-types-of-vehicles.php The ones I browsed call out a safety inspection, which is probabl
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by gvb 12y ago
I don't have experience with any "smart" TVs, but my "DVD player" is running U-Boot and linux. If you download a "firmware upgrade" and run xxd or "strings" on it, it becomes pretty clear what OS
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by gvb 12y ago
Nobody buys a compiler to calculate the values generated by the whetstone benchmark[1], everybody already knows the answers. The point is not to make a mug, the mug is a benchmark. The point is that it takes a nontrivial amount of time, the
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by gvb 12y ago
Sounds like there be dragons that I would like to avoid. I'm curious what your environment is: * VM host machine OS (Windows/linux/OSX)? * Virtual machine (HyperV/VMware/KVM/...)? * Guest OS (Windows/linux
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Quick Attacks One Click Away(spin.atomicobject.com)
1 points by gvb 12y ago|0 comments
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AVA – Now open source(defensible.me)
1 points by gvb 12y ago|0 comments
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by gvb 12y ago
Serious practical problems: 1. Weight of the magetron, battery, and power supply to power the magnetron. 2. Shielding required on the aggressor drone to prevent it from frying itself.
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by gvb 12y ago
I tried it ~2 weeks ago and was unable to figure out how to get it to synchronize across multiple computers as promised (could have been operator error or documentation lack). I also had a few times where I dismounted the virtual file syste
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by gvb 12y ago
(2012) That one was fixed. Hopefully no new ones have sprung up. References: https://access.redhat.com/articles/15145 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4188412
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by gvb 12y ago
Mythbusters labelled it "plausable." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MythBusters_%282003_season%29#E... Video: http://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/mythbusters/videos/escape-... &quo
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Being an Extrovert in an Introvert-Dominant Workplace(spin.atomicobject.com)
1 points by gvb 12y ago|0 comments
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by gvb 12y ago
My guess is that the bear is related to Ursa Major. That's a pretty obvious guess, but how it would be related to Ursa Major, I have no idea. :-/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursa_Major#Mythology
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by gvb 12y ago
The article is interesting, but buried in it is this link to their full stats on the SMART reports which is fascinating: https://www.backblaze.com/blog-smart-stats-2014-8.html
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by gvb 12y ago
to avoid unintentionally being a drug mule, for starters ...and it gets worse from there! Carrying unknown packages from strangers is an unspeakably bad idea. That was the cause of the Lockerbie disaster. That is what is warned against in
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by gvb 12y ago
Wire fraud and money laundering are federal crimes, I assume conspiracy too. Illegally acquired money is a trap: you cannot spend it without running afoul of some very serious federal statutes. Thus criminals attempt to "launder"
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by gvb 12y ago
Remember the Yellow Pages[tm]? It was a free product that made a huge amount of money by charging businesses to be included/advertised. Google Maps is the new Yellow Pages. "Let your fingers do the walking." Many GPSes have
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by gvb 12y ago
I just ordered a Thinkpad T540p for $649 (plus tax, no s/h) from the Lenovo site. "Web list price" is $1,413.00. I don't know how long the deal will last. Obviously, I have not tried to run linux on it, but I don't
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by gvb 12y ago
My summary/option: Technical leaders should be front-running the team so that, when less experienced engineers run into problems, the technical leader knows in what direction to point the team to find the solution to the problem. Havin

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